a love of knowing

I don't know how or why it started...

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succulant

{I created a new category: Simple Things. For those simple things in life that make me happy, make me smile, bring me joy and contentment. No words are needed. Just a photo. This is just the first. Enjoy. :)}

Nelson Park

I've lived in Poulsbo for two years, walking distance from this little gem of a park--yet I hadn't visited it at all until I was out collecting data for a work project.

mini photo walk

I take a good amount of photos... but I still feel like I don't take enough. I rarely go out just to take photos. Most of the time I shoot with a purpose-- to share a project, document some event, capture the ridiculousness of my critters, etc.

I want to take make the time to go out with my camera just to shoot. I can't improve without practicing!

hoping for lemons

Remember the variegated pink lemon tree I picked up last fall? And the itty-bitty lemon (yes, singular) it had, but never ripened?

Well, I have higher hopes for it this year. They might be slightly unfounded... but a girl has got to have hope for her lemons, right?

The tree had been hanging out in my kitchen all winter and most of the spring, but it is outside now... and actually looking pretty good!

There are some itty bitty flower buds...

dig a little deeper

I have this great desire to buy lots of plants and do lots of gardening... even though I don't have places prepared to actually plant things. Still.

Tearing up plastic on my "hill" and beating the hard-pan earth below it to make it workable just isn't appealing to me.

Until I get enough motivation to tackle that little item on my to-do list I make do with the tiny area around my front stoop.

a bit greener

I want to have a garden. I don't know what extra time I will be able to put towards my dream of growing my own veggies... but I have to start somewhere.

And that starting point was an Organic Gardening class I took with Sara! The class was part of a four-part series through the Washington State University Kitsap County extension program. We took the second class in the series (because you don't have to take the whole series) that covered garden planning, small fruits and berries, and bee pollinators.

We learned so much I am still have trouble digesting it all! Thankfully they gave us a pile of resources that we can refer to along with seed catalogs that will help us plan our dream gardens.